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date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/road-snacks-jack-van-cleaf
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Squid-shaped purses for sale.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/05/friday-squid-blogging-squid-purses.html
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044521-looking-to-relax-or-fall
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/a-calming-visit-to-claude-monets-famed-gardens-in-giverny
date: 2024-05-03, from: Stephen Wolfram blog
The
Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does
machine learning work? Both are examples of adaptive processes that
surprise us with what they manage to achieve. So what’s the essence of
what’s going on? I’m going to concentrate here on biological evolution,
though much of what I’ll discuss is also […]
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044546-from-designer-frank-chime
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Bruce Schneier blog
I have spoken at several TED conferences over the years.
I’m putting this here because I want all three links in one place.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/05/my-ted-talks.html
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044545-jack-kerouacs-30-item-lis
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/the-flashlight-gun-is-peak-wtf-america
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044544-from-1912-to-1952-the
date: 2024-05-03, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I’ve developed new appreciation for two musicians from my generation: George Harrison and Bob Dylan, thanks to the encouragement of two friends, both of whom have links to my childhood believe it or not, but who are current friends in my dotage and they’re both on Facebook.
So my first friend said she likes George Harrison the best of all the Beatles, and I thought that’s weird because it really was down to Paul and John, I thought – and then I heard this interview with George asking why he didn’t explain in his memoir how he worshipped John as a kid, and George took exception, saying yeah in John’s mind that’s who I am, a kid who worshipped him, which I never did (says George). So now I have gone back through his music and see holy shit he really was as unique as either of the others, and he was more of a collaborator in his later life than either (of course we never got to find out how John would have evolved past 1980). And he was never going to be taken seriously by the others, so he had to get out of there to have the creative life he wanted.
About Dylan, the credit goes to my local friend and Andrew Hickey, who focused my attention on the music of Dylan’s songs, when I had only been focusing on the lyrics. Silly of me. He only ever wanted to be seen as a musician, not a leader of anything, and that’s where the difficulty came from, and why I wasn’t really interested, even though I had listened to all the Dylan songs many times, and had a few of his albums growing up. So I just played Tangled Up in Blue and realized this has been rolling around in my mind for days, and I wasn’t even aware of it.
Kind of like All Along the Watchtower (another Dylan song) in Battlestar Galactica, which I just heard is currently on Amazon. I think it’s time for another binge of that. ;-)
Anyway, two doors open, and that’s always good. You know this is why you pick your music when you’re young and stay with it, because it’s the soundtrack of your life, and it has new relevance at every step of your evolution. Sure I listen to other music, but – it’s the songs that were big when I was little that matter most.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/03/154044.html?title=theSoundtrackOfYourLife
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/the-art-of-work-in-the-age-of-ai-production
date: 2024-05-03, from: Ayjay blog
A number of people have asked me for my thoughts about the current university campus protests. I have very few. As the novelist John Barth said when asked why he hadn’t been involved in the anti-war protests of the Sixties, “the fact that the situation is desperate doesn’t make it any more interesting.” People who […]
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044526-designing-a-3d-printed-ro
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-05-03, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Can
we please have a nice slogan we can chant at rallies saying that we
think that women owning their own bodies is at least as important as
everyone being
armed
to the teeth so they can shoot their dogs. I think the Repubs
learned something after one of their own boasted that
she
killed her own dog with a gun. They learned that Republican voters
think the right to bear arms does not make them hate dogs and to their
surprise they don’t endorse shooting them. Maybe shooting Jews,
immigrants, people of color and libruls and libtards of all flavors
would probably be okay but for crying out loud not dogs!! They’re so
freaking cute.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/03.html#a131429
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-05-03, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW, there are plenty of relatively low priced tickets available at the Pacers arena for the May 10 game when the playoff heads to Indiana. This is one of the Knicks fans’ favorite tactics. Since there are so many New Yorkers, spread out all over the country, and we’re pretty much all Knicks fans, this can create a demoralizing effect for the opposition players who assume their hometown crowd will be rooting for them, not the other team. It had a pretty adverse effect on the Sixers a few days ago. I was chatting about this with fellow Knicks fan NakedJen during last night’s harrowing game, and said this might be a good tactic somehow in the election, if every time the opposition had a rally they discovered that most of the attendees were actually in favor of democracy and abortion rights.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/03.html#a130252
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-05-03, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Since
I write so
much
about the Knicks here, I need to tell you that
the
Knicks won their first round playoff series against the
Philadelphia
team last night. Almost all playoff series that aren’t sweeps are
intense, but this one was especially so. So we’re on to the
next
round, starting Monday, back in NYC, against the Indiana Pacers, an
excellent team this year. And Doc Searls, who is also a Knicks fan, now
lives in Indiana, so he is somewhat justified in believing the world
revolves around him. I’ve always had that sense about Doc.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/03.html#a125217
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Bruce Schneier blog
The Polish Embassy has posted a series of short interview segments with Marian Rejewski, the first person to crack the Enigma.
Details from his biography.
date: 2024-05-03, from: Ayjay blog
Bryan Garsten: Liberal societies, I want to suggest, are those that offer refuge from the very people they empower. The reach of this formulation will become evident when we allow ourselves to use “refuge” in both a literal and a metaphorical sense, so that institutions and practices can offer refuge from a powerful person as […]
https://blog.ayjay.org/refuge/
date: 2024-05-03, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends, From time to time, I share with you some of my personal history so that you understand where my values come from. The late 1960s was a time of experimentation — “sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll” and a lot more. The giant baby-boom generation was heading out into the world that seemed to many of us to be nuts. Some of us joined cults. Others, urban communes. Others, utopian communities in the countryside.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/my-t-group-in-big-sur-1969
date: 2024-05-03, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends, I’ve been spending the last several weeks trying to find out what’s really going on with the campus protests. I’ve met with students at Berkeley, visited with faculty at Columbia University, and talked with young people and faculty at many other universities.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whats-really-motivating-the-protests
date: 2024-05-03, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Daring Fireball
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/this-is-tim-transcript-of-apples-q2-2024-analyst-call/
date: 2024-05-03, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
I’m not a birder, but I endorse this perspective that doing things that enliven you is important, even if no one else sees them as productive. (I get excited about plants the way birders do about birds 🌱 Actually, I realized that I have even made some trips explicitly to see a particular plant 😂🤔 […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/05/02/hobbies-are-productive/
date: 2024-05-02, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Maybe there will be a Summer after all In a college garden the other day. Quote of the Day “Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.” Marshall McLuhan Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Franz Schubert … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-3-may-2024/39405/
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Daring Fireball
https://investor.apple.com/investor-relations/default.aspx
date: 2024-05-02, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
My approach to scent descriptions is to choose honesty over accuracy. — Tracy Wan See also: 5-4-3-2-1 Sensory Details to Enrich Settings Read The Museum of Scent Obsession with scent
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/05/02/describe-scents-by-mood/
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/
date: 2024-05-02, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Maybe he wanted the cover for his wall
https://steady.substack.com/p/why-did-trump-do-the-time-interview
date: 2024-05-02, from: Melanie Mitchell, AI Guide for Human Thinking
Two weeks ago, Nature, one of the world’s most prestigious journals, had this jarring headline: The article explained this further: “Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image classification and competition-level mathematics, according to a new report”.
https://aiguide.substack.com/p/ai-now-beats-humans-at-basic-tasks
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-05-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I asked ChatGPT and Meta.ai to draw a typical residential street in north Queens.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/02.html#a213912
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/ancient-ish-woolen-dutch-hats
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044538-if-you-like-my-comics
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044541-copy-the-shrug-emoji-a
date: 2024-05-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
http://scripting.com/2024/05/02/193826.html?title=ifNotNowWhen
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/reading-about-listening-to-js-bach
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044540-cant-resist-an-i-called
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/diary-comics-dec-19-20
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/the-native-youth-olympics
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044534-an-faq-about-your-new
date: 2024-05-02, from: mrusme blog
“Alicante is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 as of 2020, the second-largest in the Valencian Community.”
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/travel/spain/alicante/
date: 2024-05-02, from: Ayjay blog
Nathan Heller: “Attention as a category isn’t that salient for younger folks,” Jac Mullen, a writer and a high-school teacher in New Haven, told me recently. “It takes a lot to show that how you pay attention affects the outcome — that if you focus your attention on one thing, rather than dispersing it across […]
https://blog.ayjay.org/attention-please/
date: 2024-05-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
In February 1999, playing with blog writing in the browser. This was a new idea at that point. Full-size screen shot.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/02/152921.html?title=firstBrowserbasedBloggingTool
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044535-video-of-a-tornado-in
date: 2024-05-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
If you want a new perspective on the election, two recommendations.
Both very illuminating and immediately influenced my thinking.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/02/151338.html?title=twoPodcastEpisodes
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044509-rock-stars-that-sound-lik
date: 2024-05-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
TL;DR: It’s gone – you can’t get there. Because it uses Twitter for identity. It and bingeworthy.io are the two apps I miss the most.
1999 was a rewrite of blogging software from the point of view of both 1999 and 2016. Both timeframes. I had learned a lot inbetween, and the art of online interaction had moved forward a lot. I had become a user of Facebook, and was impressed with how their software worked. I was imploring them to turn it into a blogging system, it was achingly close. When I realized they weren’t going to do it, I set out to do it myself, how I imagined Facebook would do a blogging system. Of course I didn’t have their source code, so I built it from scratch.
Because 1999 used Twitter for identity, I couldn’t use it. I also couldn’t use Radio, because it ran on Windows and a now-obsolete version of the Mac OS. It’s made me think that maybe in a few years or even months you might not be able to use FeedLand or Drummer. Then I thought about how I can better future-safe them for users. And that led me to adding a simple feature to FeedLand that will help if a FeedLand server you depend on should go off the air. See the next post, below.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/02/140941.html?title=whatBecameOf1999io
date: 2024-05-02, from: Matt Haughey blog
The thing I remember most about your first few days on this planet was the anxiety.
The actual birth was an ordeal in and of itself, but barely 24 hours later nurses were shoving us out of the hospital, giving two young adults with the least amount of experience around
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/may-2nd/
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/this-sliding-door-sounds-like-a-screaming-r2-d2-1
date: 2024-05-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
First and foremost, you should keep a current backup copy of your subscription list. It’s very easy to do.
I added another way to preserve your feed list, using localStorage.
console.log (localStorage.savedUserSubs)
http://scripting.com/2024/05/02/135643.html?title=protectingYourFeedlandSubscriptionLists
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-04, from: Charlie’s Diary
It’s quite apparent that right now we’re seeing the build-out of a whole new communications technology that hasn’t quite hit the public eye yet—ubiquitous satellite broadband and telephony. This is still in the very early stages. Right now my iPhone…
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/05/on-mistaking-a-transient-state.html
date: 2024-05-02, updated: 2024-05-02, from: Bruce Schneier blog
The UK is the first country to ban default passwords on IoT devices.
On Monday, the United Kingdom became the first country in the world to ban default guessable usernames and passwords from these IoT devices. Unique passwords installed by default are still permitted.
The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) introduces new minimum-security standards for manufacturers, and demands that these companies are open with consumers about how long their products will receive security updates for.
The UK may be the first country, but as far as I know, California is the first jurisdiction. It …
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/05/the-uk-bans-default-passwords.html
date: 2024-05-02, from: Ayjay blog
Russell Lynes’s 1949 essay for Harper’s, “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow” — about which I’ll have more to say later — features this illustration by Saul Steinberg.
https://blog.ayjay.org/brows-illustrated/
date: 2024-05-02, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends, Trump yesterday urged college presidents to be tougher on students protesting the war in Gaza, calling them “raging lunatics.” He continued: “To every college president, I say remove the encampments immediately. Vanquish the radicals and take back our campuses for all of the normal students.”
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/conflict-discord-and-the-2024-election
date: 2024-05-02, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Having found a separate server, written in Go, monitored by systemd, to be the superior solution for double hosting my site for Gemini, I kept thinking about Gopher. With Oddµ using a version of Markdown that is very close to the standard, and having found a library that I understand, more or less, which I had successfully grafted onto Satellite, the Gemini server I’m using, based on renderer code I found in the Hugo-to-Gemini converter that used the same Markdown parsing library I was using for Oddµ, I figured that I might use the same library to turn Markdown into suitable Gopher pages.
It took some wrangling and it’s probably not great, but the main menu matches my front page and the blog posts look mostly OK, and so the site is back as a gopher hole on port 70!
See Markdown Gopher for the Gopher server code.
See my patched Satellite for the Gemini server code, discussed back in 2023.
And naturally I’m immediately annoyed by the lack of UTF-8 support in this client I’m using.
2024-05-01. I think I finally managed to get decent word-wrapping!
2024-05-02. I think I’m fine with the limitations I’ve set myself for the Markdown Gopher server. It really leans into the plain text aesthetic.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-04-22-gopher
date: 2024-05-02, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
We first visited the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden in June 2021, mostly missing the rhodies — but today we caught them! Even a week earlier, there would have been more — but there were still plenty to see, and cool foliage too. There was a super high pollen count today so I masked up but […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/05/02/spring-at-the-rhododendron-species-botanical-garden/
date: 2024-05-02, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
A few weeks back, I did a print swap with Joe and now have finally gotten a frame for his cool riso print! I went with pink 😃 I’ve added it to my rotating bookcase gallery to start, and in a few months I’ll find it a more permanent home. It’s fun to showcase different […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/05/01/the-rotating-bookshelf-art-show/
date: 2024-05-01, from: Om Malik blog
People often talk about how AI will kill us, and take our jobs. It may do all that, but for now, I think of it as technology that augments my capabilities, and I see this play out every day in my life as a writer. For instance, yesterday I interviewed Matthew Prince, co-founder of CloudFlare. …
https://om.co/2024/05/01/how-ai-has-helped-my-writing-process/
date: 2024-05-01, updated: 2024-05-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044531-the-world-central-kitchen
date: 2024-05-01, updated: 2024-05-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/bubblegum-aliens
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-05-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
There’s a FeedLand Blogroll Toolkit if you want to adapt it to work in your blogging environment. We already have a WordPress plugin.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/01.html#a184141
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-05-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
F.
Murray Abraham, pictured to the right, played the part of the bad
guy in a fantastic
movie
about the
Inquisition.
We’re headed that way in the US. A man very much like
Bernardo Gui
will be advising women and their doctors on what is permitted in women’s
health care.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/01.html#a182514
date: 2024-05-01, updated: 2024-05-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044533-the-existential-threat-fa
date: 2024-05-01, updated: 2024-05-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044532-what-they-are-afraid-of
date: 2024-05-01, updated: 2024-05-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044530-please-stop-emailing-us-h
date: 2024-05-01, from: Jeff Geerling blog
4-way NVMe RAID comes to Raspberry Pi 5
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>With the Raspberry Pi 5's exposed PCI Express connector comes many new possibilities—which I test and document in my <a href="https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/hats">Pi PCIe Database</a>. Today's board is the <a href="https://geekworm.com/products/x1011">Geekwork X1011</a>, which puts four NVMe SSDs under a Raspberry Pi.</p>
Unlike the Penta SATA HAT I tested last month, this carrier uses thinner and faster NVMe storage, making it a highly-compact storage expansion option, which has the added benefit of freeing up the top of the Pi 5 for other HAT expansion options.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/4-way-nvme-raid-comes-raspberry-pi-5
date: 2024-05-01, updated: 2024-05-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044522-love-this-a-grid-based-cs
date: 2024-05-01, updated: 2024-05-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/electronic-plastic
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-05-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
My father taught me how to organize my thinking when I was trying to figure out how something works. And that’s basically what I’ve spent my life on, figuring out how things work. The most interesting and gratifying was understanding things that didn’t exist until I pieced their story together.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/01.html#a143101
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-05-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
When I log on to meta.ai, these are the suggestions. None of them relate to things I’m thinking about. I haven’t been a student or interviewed for a job in decades. But I’ve been on Facebook for many years, and I had to connect this to my Facebook account to use it, so presumably it knows all that Facebook knows about me, about me. How long before this is customized?
http://scripting.com/2024/05/01.html#a142154
date: 2024-05-01, updated: 2024-05-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044519-gen-x-and-millennials-who
date: 2024-05-01, updated: 2024-05-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/05/0044513-artist-alex-tomlinson-ask
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-05-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
If you’re a blogger, here’s something to think about. Whose writing influenced the way you write? Here’s my list: Kurt Vonnegut, My uncle Ken (not his writing, rather his way of telling stories), my father, Russell Baker, Robert Hunter (lyricist for the Dead), Douglas Coupland (specifically MicroSerfs), the Suck.com guys, everyone who was writing at Hotwired in 1995. I’ll think of others, but those are the ones who come to mind. I have been a constant reader since I was a little kid, so there’s a mix of writing styles from authors I don’t immediately remember. I should also do one of these lists for who inspired my software.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/01.html#a130058
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-05-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m looking for a quick and easy and ideally free way to upload an MP3 of a podcast and get back a transcript. I have a feeling that a podcast I recorded yesterday will work better as a written document, but I don’t have the patience to transcribe it myself. I asked on Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, ChatGPT, Meta.ai.
http://scripting.com/2024/05/01.html#a123347
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-05-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
have to admit I like
Tyrese Maxey
of the Sixers, who
spoiled
a Knicks victory last night that would have closed out the first
round of the playoffs. It felt like the Knicks had won the game when
Maxie single-handedly pulled the Sixers back into contention. Now the
Knicks are up 3-2 with the next game in Philadelphia tomorrow night.
But! I didn’t flip out this time like I did for the last game, and I
think it was because I was able to watch it on
local TV with the familiar
play by play guy, Mike Breen, and the best color guy for any sport,
Walt Clyde
Frazier. If he wasn’t flipping out why should I. One of the things I
love about his
narration is that
he uses words incorrectly, kind of like
Archie
Bunker. I keep wanting to
say
“I do not think it means what you think it means,” but then I realized,
last night, for the first time, it’s freaking poetry! A lot of it even
rhymes. And it’s a poem that will go on as long as the Knicks do.
Unfortunately I don’t think the MSG crew is going to be doing the
next
game. And btw, they do a much better job of camera work than ESPN.
Maybe it’s because the TV people have been able to iterate the camera
setup the same way I iterate the UI of a piece of software. The same
company owns the TV network as owns the arena as owns the team. It’s all
totally horizontally integrated. At dinner the other night a friend
asked, if the
owner of the
Knicks wasn’t a putz. I said of course, he’s the worst but, the Knicks
now are being well managed. So maybe he’s mellowed out a bit?
http://scripting.com/2024/05/01.html#a122811
date: 2024-05-01, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Scammers tricked a company into believing they were dealing with a BBC presenter. They faked her voice, and accepted money intended for her.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/05/ai-voice-scam.html
date: 2024-05-01, from: Ayjay blog
Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, in The Lost Week-End (1940), their generally fascinating and informative social history of Great Britain between the world wars, make a great many Olympian pronouncements. They say, for instance, that Auden “perhaps never wrote an original line,” a claim that, to the person who has read even a handful of […]
https://blog.ayjay.org/sayers-the-middlebrow/
date: 2024-05-01, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-will-israels-war-in
@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2024-05-01, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
So I know I’ve been really quiet on here for a while, but since my fatigue has improved massively, and we’ve now done the early scans and tests to confirm things are progressing well, I guess I can post this… 😅
I am pregnant! Viv and I are expecting around Halloween. We had our first ultrasound last week and got to see Baby waving their arms about, annnnnd yeah. It’s nerve-wracking and scary but exciting, and while I don’t intend it to become the ONLY thing I post about, it’s definitely a big thing happening in my life right now. It feels weird to say “I’m hoping to get back into social media” (even when this encompasses IndieWeb microblogging) but uhhhh… kinda. Haha. Anyway, that’s my big news!
https://www.jayeless.net/2024/05/exciting-personal-news.html
date: 2024-05-01, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Haven’t thought of this song in decades probably but it popped into my head at dinner. Wild how lyrics become etched into the subconscious. When I was a kid I usually paired this with Galileo by the Indigo Girls, (which I see also came out in 1992), but today I’m going literal and matching with […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/30/polaroids-memories-associations/
date: 2024-05-01, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Robin Sloan on the AI training == human learning argument: This might be a reasonable argument if AI models operated at the speed and fidelity of human writers and artists. It’s true, Robin Sloan did read a ton of copyrighted books. However, he did not read all the copyrighted books, and even then, the task […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/30/human-dimensions/
date: 2024-04-30, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Present at the Creation This is a pic of the world’s very first Web server — Tim Berners-Lee’s NEXT machine at CERN. Note the handwritten note on the machine. (Source: Jeremy Reimer on ArsTechnica.) Quote of the Day ”The rain … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-1-may-2024/39397/
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044520-amazon-has-renewed-fallou
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044518-mike-masnick-shares-how-h
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/art-celebrity-doppelgangers
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044517-a-lovely-profile-of-danie
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044516-the-jwst-recently-capture
date: 2024-04-30, from: Matt Haughey blog
I mentioned a book I was planning to write in my "Embrace the weird" post a couple weeks ago. This book idea is definitely weird, as it's a super niche one.
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date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044515-the-ap-is-reporting-that
date: 2024-04-30, from: Ayjay blog
The Five Spot, on St. Mark’s Place in Manhattan, hosted most of the great jazz musicians of the middle part of the twentieth century — Charles Mingus, for instance: It was also a block-and-a-half from 77 St. Mark’s Place, which is where for a long time Auden lived for about half of each year. (Leon […]
https://blog.ayjay.org/st-marks-place/
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/ai-image-feedback-loop
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044510-super-cool-photos-from-th
date: 2024-04-30, from: Om Malik blog
Tech’s past tells us that the future doesn’t unfold along a predetermined timeline. Despite the rocky starts of Humane’s AI Pin & Rabbit’s R1 device, we’re heading to a promising era where invisible information interfaces become as commonplace as screens.
https://om.co/2024/04/30/the-reality-optimism-of-ai-hardware/
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044508-i-love-watching-these-gen
date: 2024-04-30, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
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Last week I attended the 50th
Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop. For a
crew of volunteers to keep a small, invitation-only, off-the-record
workshop going for half a century is an amazing achievement. A lot of
the credit goes to the late
John H.
Wharton, who chaired it from 1985 to 2017 with one missing year. He
was responsible for the current format, and the eclecticism of the
program’s topics.
Brian Berg has written a short history of
the workshop for the IEEE entitled
The
Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop: Its Origin Story, and Beyond.
It was started by “Three Freds and a Ted” and one of the Freds, Fred
Coury has also written about it in
here.Six
years ago David Laws wrote
The
Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop and the Billion Dollar Toilet
Seat for the Computer History Museum.
I have
attended almost all of them since 1987. I have been part of the
volunteer crew for many, including this one, and have served on the
board of the 501C3 behind the workshop for some years.
This
year’s
program
featured a keynote from
Yale Patt, and a
session from four of his ex-students,
Michael
Shebanow,
Wen-mei Hwu,
Onur
Mutlu and Wen-Ti Liu. Other talks came from
Alvy Ray
Smith based on his book
A Biography of
the Pixel,
Mary Lou
Jepsen on OpenWater, her attempt to
cost-reduce diagnosis and treatment, and Brandon Holland and Jaden
Cohen, two high-school students on applying AI to the Prisoner’s
Dilemma. I interviewed
Chris
Malachowsky about the history of
NVIDIA. And, as always, the RATS (Rich
Asilomar Tradition Session) in which almost everyone gives a 10-minute
talk lasted past midnight.
The workshop is strictly
off-the-record unless the speaker publishes it elsewhere, so I can’t
discuss the content of the talks.
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/the-50th-asilomar-microcomputer-workshop.html
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/check-in-on-those-around-you
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044501-its-clear-to-me-that
date: 2024-04-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Note: This post is the summary of a podcast.
When my mother died in 2018, it didn’t settle in that the context in which I lived, my whole life, was gone.
She lived in the house I was raised in. Very little had changed in that house. I hadn’t lived there since I went away to college, but it still defined who I was, an adult who didn’t live in his childhood home. When we sold the house, the last time I saw it, it was empty, and that was when it hit me. That part of my life is over. I no longer have a home I can return to.
The same is true with our understanding of who we are as adult American citizens. Until now we felt we had a vote. But that is over, unless we change our view of the country we live in. It’s not that it’s about to change, which is what you hear in the news, and on social web – it has already changed.
We now understand that Trump may be above the law but that masks a bigger truth, the Supreme Court is already above the law. They take bribes, openly. They cannot be prosecuted (just try it and see what happens). They openly side with the insurrection, yet don’t recuse when deciding issues of what to do with the insurrectionists. They imagine the president is a monarch.
We’re already living in the authoritarian state we’re worried about. We haven’t caught up with that reality yet.
Our government is more concerned about our right to own guns than it is with our right to own our own bodies. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. If I said you don’t own your own body, what would you think I’m talking about? Answer: Slavery.
If we did catch up with that reality, we would start organizing now to undo that mistake. We would not only re-elect Biden in a landslide, but we’d insist that he expand the court to 100 members serving 10-year terms each, retroactive. And thus we would eliminate one of the huge problems in our system of government. Have they proved they need this kind of correction? Yes, the overturning of Roe, and the lack of prosecution of Trump for trying to overthrow the government are all the proof we need.
And from then-on, no politician in any branch of government would take us for granted.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/30/125735.html?title=itsDifferentAfterItsGone
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Meta has threatened to pull WhatsApp out of India if the courts try to force it to break its end-to-end encryption.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/whatsapp-in-india.html
date: 2024-04-30, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends, Republicans are attacking Biden for expanding the federal debt, and the House “Freedom Caucus” is livid that Speaker Mike Johnson has agreed to more funds for Ukraine, claiming it will expand the debt even further. Can we just have some sanity here?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-to-say-to-a-republican-who-complains
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Daring Fireball
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/04/29/ep-399
date: 2024-04-30, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Daring Fireball
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/04/how-we-fought-bad-apps-and-bad-actors-in-2023.html
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Ron Garret
(This is the fifth in a series on the scientific method. )Daniel Dennett died last week. He was a shining light of rationality and clarity in a world that is often a dark and murky place. He was also the author of, among many other works, Consciousness Explained, which I think is one of the most important books ever written because it gives a plausible answer to what seems like an
https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/04/the-scientific-method-part-5-illusions.html
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Daring Fireball
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_2363
date: 2024-04-29, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
To a crowd you wouldn’t expect
https://steady.substack.com/p/bidens-plea-to-save-democracy
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044507-a-live-action-1950s-versi
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044493-from-1994-a-collection-of
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I keep harping on Kevin Durant, but the thing he didn’t understand about New York is that we’re a one-team town when it comes to basketball. We’ll go to a Nets game if there’s nothing else to do, but the Knicks are the story of New York in re basketball.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/29.html#a181546
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044506-with-moviecart-you-can-cr
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/drawing-media-an-interview-with-zaria-forman
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044503-murdle-volume-1-a-book
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044502-i-blame-facebook-for-janu
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The
Knicks keep
winning
my heart. They play the game exactly as it should be played. And they
don’t take the bait to make it about anything other than what happens on
the court, and to trust in the league to take care of players who don’t
play by the rules. And of course the Philadelphia arena was full
of Knicks fans. The tickets cost a lot less than NYC tickets, and it’s
only 2 hours away by car, and there’s good train service. If the series
goes back to Philadelphia, the same thing will happen. I feel sorry for
fans of small town teams, because no matter where you go in the US,
there are always lots of Knicks fans. Largest city in the country.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/29.html#a150813
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/were-in-the-golden-age-of-mid-tv
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044499-how-crappy-federal-legisl
date: 2024-04-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
http://scripting.com/2024/04/29/140806.html?title=rusticSwissVillage
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
If you’re running a FeedLand server, look in the data/riverBuildLogs folder. A bunch of fairly unnecessary JSON files may be accumulating there. I made a mistake in the default value of a config setting. Details here. I noticed the problem as feedland.org was getting low on disk space. The default is set correctly in the latest release.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/29.html#a135535
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044498-the-louvre-wants-to-put
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Bruce Schneier blog
During the Cold War, the US Navy tried to make a secret code out of whale song.
The basic plan was to develop coded messages from recordings of whales, dolphins, sea lions, and seals. The submarine would broadcast the noises and a computer—the Combo Signal Recognizer (CSR)—would detect the specific patterns and decode them on the other end. In theory, this idea was relatively simple. As work progressed, the Navy found a number of complicated problems to overcome, the bulk of which centered on the authenticity of the code itself.
The message structure couldn’t just substitute the moaning of a whale or a crying seal for As and Bs or even whole words. In addition, the sounds Navy technicians recorded between 1959 and 1965 all had natural background noise. With the technology available, it would have been hard to scrub that out. Repeated blasts of the same sounds with identical extra noise would stand out to even untrained sonar operators…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/whale-song-code.html
date: 2024-04-29, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Every Republican House election denier must pledge to certify the 2024 presidential election results
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-important-litmus-test-of
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-05-03, from: Daring Fireball
https://world.hey.com/dhh/imperfections-create-connections-bc87d630
date: 2024-04-29, from: Dave Rupert blog
A fine post by Ethan Marcotte called The negotiation cycle led me to an incredible essay by Alan Jacobs called From Tech Critique to Ways of Living. It references an old idea called “The SCT1” which is new to me but based on thinking by the likes of Ursula Franklin and Neil Postman who I am familiar with. Neil Postman’s Technopoly2 –which I read in March– was one of the best books on technology I’ve ever read, so this is relevant for me.
Jacobs’ essay takes an unexpected yet welcome turn towards Daoism linking to a heavier essay by Yuk Hui called Cosmotechnics and Cosmopolitics. I’m not smart enough to fully understand all these philosophical (epistemological?) arguments3, but reading the word “cosmotechnics” felt like a beacon in the night for a concept I’ve intuitively felt but never had a word to describe. In Hui’s words:
Let me give you a preliminary definition of cosmotechnics: it is the unification of the cosmos and the moral through technical activities, whether craft-making or art-making.
I believe that science and technology are moral. Try as we may to
divorce a tool from an outcome, there is always an interplay. As a
contrived example, I can make a <Button/> component
and it would by itself be morally neutral. But if I make a
<Button/> that someone with a disability cannot use,
then I have made a moral decision through either action or inaction.
Similarly, I can make a <Button/> that puts a stuffed
animal in a digital shopping cart, that is morally neutral. But if that
stuffed animal is knowingly assembled with child labor and dropshipped
from afar with an immense carbon cost relative to the value of the item,
I have made an immoral <Button/>. It’s not hard for
me to imagine that someone somewhere is making a
<Button/> component that launches a nuclear missile…
In the words of Dr. King from his sermon The Three Evils of Society:
“When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
But if you believe technology is moral, then the next larger follow up question is “Whose morals?”
This question of “Whose morals?” permeates my thoughts, specifically in regards to global challenges like climate change. Call me unpatriotic, but I don’t think rugged American individualism is going to manifest destiny our way out of the climate crisis. A technological breakthrough seems unlikely. We need to rely on the knowledge and experiences of African, Asian, and Indigenous societies who have a different ontology, a different Dao (a code of behavior that is in harmony with the natural order); one that prioritizes the group over the individual. In less metaphysical terms, I believe we need to listen to societies built on cooperation and sharing of limited resources over societies built on the continuous expansion of dominion through exploitation of markets, labor, and people.
We need a new language of cosmopolitics to elaborate this new world order that goes beyond a single hegemon.4
I agree with Hui that a singular perspective cannot and will not solve the current crisis we are facing. Technology alone will not save us. We need scientific power in the hands of moral-powered men and women. And the longer we wait the more we risk erasing the communities and ancient knowledge we need to find an equitable solution.
Climate change, geopolitical conflict, the rise of authoritarianism brought about by social media companies… these are all large problems that take governments decades to solve. That puts cosmotechnics far away from me, a would-be practitioner. Hui thankfully provides a story from the Zhuangzi; the butcher Pao Ding.
Pao Ding is excellent at butchering cows. He claims that the key to being a good butcher doesn’t lie in mastering certain skills, but rather in comprehending the Dao. Replying to a question from Duke Wen Huei about the Dao of butchering cows, Pao Ding points out that having a good knife is not necessarily enough; it is more important to understand the Dao in the cow, so that one does not use the blade to cut through the bones and tendons, but rather to pass alongside them in order to enter into the gaps between them.
This is the kind of web development I like. It agrees with me. I better understand the Dao of web design. Our apps and websites are like water, flowing in and out of viewports. Contextualizing themselves to the recipient’s limitations or preferences. Those who find the easier paths through the gaps become excellent butchers of websites.
Pao Ding adds that a good butcher has to change his knife once a year because he cuts through tendons, while a bad butcher has to change his knife every month because he cuts through bones. Pao Ding, on the other hand—an excellent butcher—has not changed his knife in nineteen years, and it looks as if it has just been sharpened with a whetstone. Whenever Pao Ding encounters any difficulty, he slows down the knife and gropes for the right place to move further.
Another translation I read phrased the bad butcher as “hacking” through bones and what a serviceable metaphor we’ve found! The knife, a technology. The medium, a cow or software. Our tools will last longer if we learn how to slow down and understand the nature of the medium, the grain, rather than hacking against it.
The hustle and bustle of capitalism and keeping up with the zeitgeist makes this hard. There’s a pressure to keep up, lest you fall off the cliff of irrelevance. After all, technology always only advances and there’s always a better knife in the distance… right?
Over the years I’ve heard myself referred to as a “curmudgeon”, “old guard”, “gatekeeper”, and “dinosaur”. That is due in part to my loudmouthed punditry but also because I dislike a specific technology from an immoral company that does our industry, society, and users irreparable harm. Moving fast and rethinking best practices spawned untold lifetimes worth of human hours dedicated to knife swapping each year. And when tools dull, we throw stones at each other.
I’ve always been overly cautious and considered in the tools I use but I’ve never thought of the tools I use as a moral choice. Perhaps now I will. I’m not a Daoist by any means, but this idea of cosmotechnics begins to provide a mental framework for expressing the relationship between technology and morality. From the large scale of the cosmos to the small scale of the knife, I’m glad to have vocabulary to think about future problems.
The Standard Critique of Technology: “We live in a technopoly, a society in which powerful technologies come to dominate the people they are supposed to serve, and reshape us in their image.” ↩︎
My library’s copy of Technoloply had a copyright date of 2012. A ten year old book being so relevant to me in 2024 was impressive. But that was the reprint date! The book was actually published almost twenty years before that in 1993 at the advent of the world wide web. I’m still astounded. ↩︎
Philosophy is a lot of invoking old thoughts to introduce or lend credibility to new thoughts. You need some level of familiarity with the entire corpus of materials to fully grasp the subject and that’s outside of my literary wheelhouse. ↩︎
One nuanced point I disagree with Hui on is on who should hold the leading power in this new cosmopolitical system. I fully agree we need to grow out of our single hegemony (America), but I’ve heard this “multipolar world’ philosophy echoed by Vladimir Putin before and I don’t believe we should cede moral authority over to authoritarian regimes that slaughter and demonize LGBTQ+ groups and ethnic minorities. We shouldn’t use new technology to reinstate old Cold War era superpowers of oppression. We need something entirely new. That said, I sit in a comfortable seat of privilege and systemic power well within the borders of the American Empire… ↩︎
https://daverupert.com/2024/04/thoughts-on-cosmotechnics/
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-30, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/mac-and-macos/301371/apple-macbook-air-15-inch-m3-review
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-04-29, updated: 2024-04-29, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-04-28, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Many happy returns Quote of the Day ”Anxiety is the price we pay for the ability to imagine the future.” NYU neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Deep River (Arr. Coleridge-Taylor, Kanneh-Mason) | Sheku Kanneh-Mason Link … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/moday-29-april-2024/39390/
date: 2024-04-28, from: Ayjay blog
My recent posts on how I choose what fiction to read and what’s going on with the publishing industry share a theme: perverse incentives. (Indeed, it seems that a lot of my writing is about perverse incentives, but more about that another time.) The intellectual/political monoculture of the modern university leads to an intellectual/political monoculture […]
https://blog.ayjay.org/more-rational-choices/
date: 2024-04-28, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
War or Nothing by A. R. Moxon I reckon this was the first lesson of a war-oriented society that we are all learning. Old what’s-his-name knew, with the sage wisdom of somebody living in a war-oriented society; when you are attacked, war is not optional. Killing is not only an appropriate answer to killing, it […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/28/retribution-and-forgiveness/
date: 2024-04-28, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
This ethos applies far beyond the Labor movement, if we dare ask for more: at a personal and societal level. See also: Flipping perspectives on time Dreaming, and Choosing, a Better Future Being a citizen means taking ownership We need our politicians to commit to change if we’re gonna get through climate change
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/28/power-expands/
date: 2024-04-28, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Let’s be clear about a few things. Antisemitism should have no place in America — not on college campuses or anywhere else. But there is nothing inherently antisemitic about condemning the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza that has so far killed at least 34,000 people, mostly women and children.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/my-thoughts-on-the-wave-of-campus
date: 2024-04-28, updated: 2024-04-28, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044500-lydia-polgreen-the-studen
date: 2024-04-28, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/dans-return-to-cbs
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Demo: I’m working on a web text editor that works in three different formats – wizzy, markdown and html source. You can flip between them with an icon click. I love flip-switches in software.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/28.html#a145134
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Today’s blogrolls are more like feed readers than the blogrolls of the 90s. My blogroll has all the best sources, and they update slowly enough that I can keep up with all of them.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/28.html#a130416
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m also blocking people who hype ActivityPub in comments to my posts about social web stuff that has nothing to do with AP. I’ve been down this road before. I just want to find people with active minds, whose business is interop, who want to try stuff out. AP is not a good foundation to build on, at least until they come up with a BDG for it. Basically it isn’t a standard even though they say it is. If you want to help your cause: 1. Stop hyping. 2. Get busy with that BDG.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/28.html#a124521
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
These
days I’m using the moderation tools on the social web more than I did in
the past. If someone I don’t know posts a negative comment on Facebook,
in response to something I posted, I just delete it, because they have
that feature (other systems don’t, they should). Any lurker who happens
by is free to enjoy what I write. But if I don’t know you, I honestly
don’t care what you think, esp if it’s negative and has less than ten
syllables total. It’s hit and run spam for sure. I’m widening my
definition of spam all the time. If you add up all the responses that
actually mean anything, it doesn’t amount to much. Let’s see what the
social web looks like without hearing from all assholes.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/28.html#a123923
date: 2024-04-28, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-support-6fc